Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
2 individual petitions (prisoner and Sarah Bishop, the prisoner's mother) and 3 collective...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/59/54
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This record is about the 2 individual petitions (prisoner and Sarah Bishop, the prisoner's mother) and 3 collective... dating from 1832 Jan 9; 1833 Apr 29 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/59/54
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1832 Jan 9; 1833 Apr 29
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 individual petitions (prisoner and Sarah Bishop, the prisoner's mother) and 3 collective petitions (3 people, 8 people and 14 people from Doynton [Deynton], Gloucestershire) with 2 accompanying letters on behalf of Richard Bishop convicted at Gloucester Quarter Sessions in January 1832 for stealing 8 sovereigns and 2 half sovereigns from Jane Powe, publican, on 11 December.
Grounds for clemency:
- only 20 years old,
- previous honest character,
- mother unable to support herself and 5 sons without help of prisoner,
- innocent of crime,
- prisoner claims he lost money in public house which was returned by Thomas Cullemore and then prosecutrix claimed it was her money she had lost.
Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Gaoler's report: character not known. Annotated: ordered to penitentiary, nil. KQ 5
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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